When the official voter information pamphlet comes out and you receive it in the mail or review it online, please read my short, 200word statement, that includes Important Information about my qualifications, accomplishments and visionary 16point platform. If youre convinced i can improve your quality of life as mayor, i ask for your vote. And if you do vote for me, i ask you to simply ask three of your friends to vote for me as well. Together, we can create a just, livable and flourishing city for all. May name is ellen. I have been living in San Francisco for 33 years. I work for the government for the last 15 years. I am a Behavioral Health clinician. I train people how to behave. I also represent the Government Employees as of may 2019, we have 32,000 Government Employees. Because i investigate complaints from Government Employees and because i was a civic grand jury for two terms, i learn a lot about san franciscans. A lot about Public Policy that is currently failed to deliver the quality care for you, for me, in San Francisco. My name is ellen. As im campaigning, going on the streets talking to Homeless People, i find out three things the Homeless People need. Three things. Indoor place to sleep. Get away from the drug dealers. And a job so they can go back to the life they used to have. August 2019, according to 13 departments summarize report, we now have 21,000 homeless report in San Francisco. In addition, we have 25,000 drug dealers, abusers and users. Im not sure if you pay attention. For the last two years, we have more than 400 people died, pass away, on San Francisco streets. Something is not right about a picture. When i walked on the streets, sometimes i see Homeless People. They have to pick up food from the trash can to eat. I am ashamed as a government employee. And as a mother, i do not want to see anybody raise their life like i have been experienced and seen people waste their life in San Francisco streets. We also have 50,000 empty apartments in San Francisco. If you refer back to may 2019, San Francisco chronicle report, we have more than 100,000 empty apartments across the bay area. San francisco alone has 50,000 to 75,000 apartments that is available today, right here, right now if we have free housing policies to release the housing for the Property Owners and the tenants who need housing. When i become mayor, i will work with the Law Enforcement to obey the United States constitution. So we will stop the according to the report, we have minimum 100 every day in San Francisco, maybe more because many people feel useless to report when nothing can be done. The police fail to deliver quality of care to prevent those property crimes. 2019, San Francisco is ranked number one in the nation that we are the number one property crime in the United States. If you think london breed our current mayor is going to change for you. Forget it. You know why . Because i work for the government for the last 15 years and associate with people who provide solutions. I am one of the solutionproviders. When i become a mayor, i will work with the federal government to enforce the United States constitution to clear the drug dealers off the street and revive the life of Homeless People, so they can get back to their feet. No more drugs, give jobs to them. I am good that the because im a Behavioral Health clinician. I train people how to behave, get back on their feet and live a life with hope, faith and love. When i become a mayor i will release the empty apartments to the teachers and the workers and local san franciscans first. We do not need a bond and get more money and get more debt for our children generations to come, because we have empty apartments today. Vote for me. Ellen for mayor, november 5, 2019. Together we heal the homeless, we will work with the United States constitution law to arrest the people they are not welcome. They are not welcome. They should not be representing our government when they are not delivering the quality of life in San Francisco. Vote for me, ellen for mayor in november, 2019. Together well make San Francisco safe and clean. Thank you. Hello. Im shauna with the leaving women voters of San Francisco. Along with the league and sf gov tv im here to discuss proposition d, a ballot measure before the voters on tuesday, november 5. Proposition d would impose a business tax on commercial Rideshare Companies for fares generated by rides that start in San Francisco. Currently the city of San Francisco does not impose a business tax on fares charged by commercial Rideshare Companies, such as uber and lyft. These companies provide car rides for fare and range shared rides where each passenger pays a separate fare. Typically, rides are requested using on Online Platform to connect drivers with passengers. The proposed tax is 1. 5 on a shared ride fare and 3. 25 on a private ride fare. The city would impose these taxes on fares charged by these company until november 5, 2045. Passenger rides in zeroemission vehicles would be subject to a 1. 5 business tax until september 21, 2024. The city will deposit the tax revenues, estimated at 31 million annually, into a Traffic CongestionMitigation Fund to spend for the following purposes. The San Francisco municipal transportation agency, which oversees the citys transportation system, including muni buses and trains, bicycles, traffic, parking and taxis will receive half of the revenues to improve muni service and reliability, maintain and expand facilities and improve muni station access. And the San Francisco county Transportation Authority, a county agency separate from the city that funds and plans transportation projects would receive roughly half of the revenue to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety. A yes vote means you want to impose a 1. 5 business tax on shared rides and a 3. 25 business tax on private rides for fares charged by driverless Vehicle Companies to Fund Improvement in muni service. A no vote means you do not want to impose this business tax. Im here with sunny from the office of supervisor aaron peskin and a proponent of proposition d. Welcome. Hi. Were joined by Howard Epstein and opponent of the measure. Thank you, both, for being here. Were going to start with Opening Statements and well begin with howard. Why do you believe this proposition is so important . I believe it should be defeated. Thats not important. This is not going to do anything. Its not going to stop the traffic. If you look at it, and look at, for instance, the fees charged on a 20 single ride, its going to add 65 cents to the ride. On the 10 rideshare, its going to add under a dollar to the ride. Thats not going to dissuade anybody from taking the rideshares. And frankly, given the state of muni in San Francisco, given the way the taxis work where i live in the richmond, its almost impossible to get a taxi. Rideshares are helpful. I use them all the time when im going downtown, out to dinner. Whatever. Theyre very handy. And to take them away and say, well, people are going to run down to take the muni just isnt going to happen. The other thing in this, there is a paragraph in there that allows this commission to add a 300 million bond to be paid for. I mean, were bond crazy now. We dont need another 300 million bond. So thats why i say vote no. Its not going to do any good. Its not going to curb traffic. Its not going to help anybody. Thank you, howard. Sunny . Well, many, many studies have shown that rideshares, uber and lyfts, have contributed to over 50 of our Traffic Congestion since 2015. This is just in the last several years. Frankly, unfortunately, it is an industry that we are preempted through state law from regulating. We cant cap the number of vehicles. We cant require them to do background checks. We cant require them to do the same Safety Training for example that our taxi cabs are required to do, but we can ask them to pay their fair share toward mitigating the impact on our streets and fund the maintenance and creation of the infrastructure, that they are utilizing every day. Thats our streets, bus stops, curbs. This funding is a very modest business tax that would go towards 50 toward increasing our muni fleet, hiring bus drivers, paying for operation and maintenance, paying for the affordability programs, free muni for seniors and youth. And the other 50 goes toward Capital Improvements which are regulated through our Transportation Authority, a separate body that the board of supervisors and their county designations help toover see. Thats everything from senior crossings to pedestrian safety, Disability Access as well as bicycle infrastructure in the city. So i mean i think that the city has identified a 22 million annual need. And these types of capital costs, whether its the downtown caltrain extension for whether its the neighborhood improvement. And this is projected to bring in 32 million to 35 million annually and i think its a great investment in our system. Thank you. So the first question is following up on that. It goes to howard. Sorry, to sunny, rather. So the proposed tax is estimated to generate 30 million in revenue, you said 32 million to 35 million annually, can you talk about how this money will be spent and why you are in support of that . Sure. So again, 50 of these funds i mean all the money goes into a Traffic Congestion fund, because numerous studies, numerous experts have all agreed that one of the best ways to get people out of their cars is having reliable muni, it is having safe Bicycle Networks with safe improvements where pedestrians, everyone can walk free of being hit by a car. And so 50 of the funding would go towards increasing capacity on our muni. We know from recent hearings that we are vastly understaffed in terms of our muni drivers. We dont have enough. And we need to be able to give them a competitive wage and hire more. We need to increase our fleet. We need to build out the rail network, including the richmond district, and make sure that Rapid Transit is operating efficiently. The other 50 goes to Capital Improvements that the Transportation Authority would be doling out. Thats bike lanes, protection. Same question to you, howard. The revenue, why would you oppose how this money is going to be . The city has enough revenue as it is. If you look at our budget, its very high. We spend the second highest amount per resident of any city in the country. Only washington d. C. Beats us. If you look at the spending, its inefficient. Look at the streets, look everywhere. What they do here, every time there is a problem, they throw money it at it. If that doesnt solve the problem, throw more money at it and nothing ever gets done. We need to bring people into city hall who understand how to manage, who understand how to plan, who are successful in the private sector and will get things done. Thank you. My next question is to first to you, howard, that is if the proposed tax the correct way to reduce Traffic Congestion in San Francisco, and if not, what is . As i said in the opening statement, given the small fee, its not going to dissuade anyone from taking the ride share. What they really have to do is plan. If you look at taking lanes away and giving them to bicycles, for instance, theyre taking out parking. Theyre doing a lot of things that add to the Traffic Congestion. If they had more parking, leave the lanes there, because there are more cars going down. And there are bicycles. We need some bike lanes, obviously, but not the way theyre doing it now, not the way theyre blocking the streets and taking out the parking. Same question to you sunny. Is the proposed tax the correct way to reduce Traffic Congestion . I think its one tool, absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, look at this point we are our city has not kept pace with the population boom in the city. Were projected to have a Million People in the city and county of San Francisco within the next ten years. I mean, we dont have, you know, a bus system, a rail system that is able to manage that kind of workerresident traffic. And i think this funding is critical to being able to hire parking control officers. Weve seen that successful in helping to reduce gridlock and blocking the box, which is people double parking in our streets. This is one of many tools we need to be employing as a city to make a dent in what is going to be gridlock like no one has seen before. In the south of market, in the center of the city, you cant even frankly where all of the tc traffic is, is a heat map of just total gridlock. Thats where the tmcs are. Weve got to start employing some of the tools we can until the state does something. Thank you. Closing statements. Howard . As i said i dont think this is needed. Theyre going to throw money at it and they wont get anything accomplished as with everything else. We need to plan. We need to take a step back, check our budget, and look at everything we planned. Look at how many employees we have in every department. Again, we have 20something employees for every resident. That is very high. Other places like philadelphia have half that and three times the population. So we need to take a step back. And rather than raising taxes, issuing bonds every time something comes up, we need to step back and look, get effective people to plan and take it from there. Sunny . You know, i am not a proponent and i think the city is being very thoughtful about what kinds of taxes we are levying. This is actually a business tax. This is not on the riders. Its not on the drivers. Its not on everyday citizens. I think that is something were sensitive to given the fact that the sales tax that was supposed to go toward the same types of improvements we were never able to fund, failed miserably. Taxpayers are like, why are we the ones paying to build infrastructure, when massive corporations, including uber and lyft, are not paying their fair share. They identified 22 million needed in Capital Improvements and being able to hire muni drivers. Thats money we dont have. And the dedicated piece of this is so important to show the voters, this is exactly what were spending the money on. Were not hiring a new mta director, not spending it on pension plans, were spending it on these line items. Thats where taxpayers have told us they want investment. This is no not a bond. This allows us to bond against the revenue we bring in. I think thats also very important. Thank you, both, for your time and input on this measure. Thanks for having us. We hope this discussion has been informative. For more information about this and other ballot measures in the november election, please visit the department of elections website. Early voting is able november 7 from 8 00 a. M. To 5 p. M. If you dont vote early, be sure to vote on tuesday, november 5. Hello. Im shauna with the league of women voters of San Francisco. A long with the league and sf gov tv im here to discuss proposition e. A ballot measure before the voters on tuesday, november 5. Proposition e is an ordinance that would amend the planning cod to allow Affordable Housing projects. The planning code currently does not include specific zoning rules for Residential Projects dedicated to employees of the San FranciscoUnified School District or the Community College district. Under proposition e, 100 Affordable Housing would be allowed in Zoning Districts except on property used for parks. Would be located on lots that are 10,000 square feet. Could not demolish or replace existing units. Would be subject to less rules regarding size, ground floor height, density and other factors than other buildings. Would allow limited amount of mix use to support the Affordable Housing.